Electric Dreams

does not require us to demonise male sexuality, which is stunted by patriarchy just as female desire is

Capitalist patriarchy is hurting men, and when men are hurt, they are much, much more likely to hurt women.

By letting these types of men—lost, sad, angry, desperate—fall prey to patriarchal forces that convince them they are better off alone, we are failing them, just as we are failing truly vulnerable men when we let them believe they are unlovable, undesirable;

But marginalised women did not feel part of this single struggle; they would argue that it has never existed. A

Only unpeopling, it says, can give the white heterosexual man whatever he wants. And doesn’t he deserve that?

More than 60% of the world’s cobalt comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), one of the five poorest nations in the world,

Sex robots do, however, already exist in one form: as an irresistible concept,

All seem to agree, as Levy claims, that ‘love and sex with robots on a grand scale are inevitable.’

The claim is that by 2050, ‘Humans will fall in love with robots, humans will marry robots, and humans will have sex with robots, all as (what will be regarded as) ‘normal’ extensions of our feelings of love and sexual desire for other humans.’